The Equitable Access Initiative is an initiative to look at the problem of using GDP per capita as the basis for decisions on which countries should receive aid and how much they should receive.
Social Progress Index data shows that the problem of using GDP per capita data to make aid decisions applies to many sectors.
3. Social Progress Index #socialprogress
FRAMEWORK
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Nutrition and Basic Medical Care
Water and Sanitation
Shelter
Personal Safety
Access to Basic Knowledge
Access to Information and
Communication
Health and Wellness
Ecosystem Sustainability
Personal Rights
Personal Freedom and Choice
Tolerance and Inclusion
Access to Advanced Education
OpportunityFoundations of WellbeingBasic Human Needs
SOCIAL PROGRESS INDEX
4. Social Progress Index #socialprogress4
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Nutrition and Basic Medical Care
Water and Sanitation
Shelter
Personal Safety
Access to Basic Knowledge
Access to Information and
Communication
Health and Wellness
Ecosystem Sustainability
Personal Rights
Personal Freedom and Choice
Tolerance and Inclusion
Access to Advanced Education
OpportunityFoundations of WellbeingBasic Human Needs
• Undernourishment
• Depth of food deficit
• Maternal mortality rate
• Child mortality rate
• Deaths from infectious diseases
• Access to piped water
• Rural access to improved water source
• Access to improved sanitation facilities
• Availability of affordable housing
• Access to electricity
• Quality of electric supply
• Indoorair pollution attributable deaths
• Homicide rate
• Levelof violent crime
• Perceived criminality
• Political terror
• Traffic deaths
• Adult literacy rate
• Primary schoolenrollment
• Lowersecondary schoolenrollment
• Uppersecondary schoolenrollment
• Genderparity in secondary enrollment
• Mobile telephone subscribers
• Internet users
• Press FreedomIndex
• Life expectancy
• Premature deaths from non-
communicable diseases
• Obesity rate
• Outdoorair pollution attributable deaths
• Suicide rate
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Water withdrawals as a percent of resources
• Biodiversity and habitat
• Political rights
• Freedom of speech
• Freedom of assembly/association
• Freedom of movement
• Private property rights
• Freedom overlife choices
• Freedom of religion
• Early marriage
• Satisfied demand forcontraception
• Corruption
• Tolerance for immigrants
• Tolerance for homosexuals
• Discrimination and violence against minorities
• Religious tolerance
• Community safety net
• Years of tertiary schooling
• Women’s average years in school
• Inequality in the attainment of education
• Globally ranked universities
SOCIAL PROGRESS INDEX 2015: INDICATORS
5. Social Progress Index #socialprogress
INDICATOR DATA SOURCES
Hard
data
Expert
analysis
Survey
data
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UNESCO
World Health Organization
Institute forHealth Metrics and Evaluation
WHO/UNICEFJoint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply…
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
International Telecommunications Union
World Resources Institute
Institute forEconomics and Peace
Lee EducationalAttainment Dataset
OECD Development Centre
UN Development Programme
UN Inter-agency Group forChild Mortality Estimation
UN Population Division
UN Sustainable Energy for All Project
World Development Indicators
Yale University Center for EnvironmentalLaw and Policy
Cingranelli-Richards Human Rights Dataset
Institute forEconomics and Peace
Pew Research Center
FreedomHouse
Fund for Peace
Heritage Foundation
Reporters without Borders
Times HigherEducation World University Rankings, QS World…
Transparency International
Gallup
World Economic Forum
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FOR THE WORLD HAS A WHOLE WE CAN SEE WHERE WE
HAVE MADE THE MOST PROGRESS… AND THE LEAST
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61.00
87.47
68.57
60.99
56.27
85.98
63.56 64.67
51.60
43.10
61.23
42.36
46.24
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10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
NutritionandBasicMedicalCare
WaterandSanitation
Shelter
PersonalSafety
AccesstoBasicKnowledge
AccesstoInfoandCommunications
HealthandWellness
EcosystemSustainability
PersonalRights
PersonalFreedomandChoice
ToleranceandInclusion
AccesstoAdvancedEduc.
Basic Human Needs Foundations of Wellbeing Opportunity
OVERALL